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...cars with new gadgets and styling changes. While former President Charlie Wilson was content to travel around in a sedate Cadillac sedan, Red Curtice likes to dash around his home town of Flint in a sporty grey-blue Buick Skylark. (He had it fitted with a wrap-around windshield long before it came out on the production models.) For Vice President Earl, who has built up the greatest industrial designing organization in the world, Curtice is a one-man poll to test new ideas. The trick, says Curtice, is simply to find the proper balance between...
...spare time tricked up his Buick with holes in the fender and flashing lights inside to create an impression of supercharged power. Curtice happened to see the car. Result: the next models were the three-holer and four-holer cars. When Harley Earl first showed Curtice the panoramic windshield on the experimental Sabre and Buick XP-3OO, Curtice's reaction was typical: "Boy, that's good. Let's put it into production." When G.M. engineers experimented with such devices as the foot parking brake and Dynaflow transmission, Curtice, the perfect customer, tried them and quickly ordered them...
...Harris, G.O.P. candidate for Congress in Colorado's First District, gave it the jawbreaking name of "Congrelephant," and made it over. From the front hung an elephant's trunk spouting smoke. It had a tail and four-foot ears, and big blue eyes were painted on the windshield. To the housewives of Ivanhoe Street, the Congrelephant was not nearly so exciting as a simple black Chrysler limousine that pulled up 15 minutes later. The limousine brought Mamie Doud Eisenhower to do some politicking for her friend Ellen Harris...
Damaged Goods. In Toledo, three youths arrested for stealing a car told Inspector Anthony A. Bosch that he should take action against the owner because the windshield wipers didn't work, the speedometer showed 94 when they were really doing 85, and the brakes were "awful." Clue. In Del Paso Heights, Calif., after being robbed of $1,470 by a man and a girl. Filling Station Attendant L. B. Rothwell offered police one solid clue: "She was very, very well-built-I mean, she had one of the best figures I've ever seen." Psychic...
...nobody's surprise, almost every make will shift to the wrap-around windshield pioneered this year by General Motors (TIME, Sept. 28, 1953). In the continuing horsepower race, the most powerful engines will be boosted to around 260 h.p. (current top: Chrysler's 235 h.p.), and the switch to V-8 engines should be completed in 1955. The new Chevrolets and Pontiacs will probably be introduced in early fall, the Fords in November-all earlier than the 1954s. But Chrysler, which had little success with its early announcement last year, will probably not be ready until December...